Wyoming
What Wyoming's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Wyoming handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Circuit judge or circuit court magistrate
- Who that is
- A judge
- Release on a schedule
- Jail or police can release on a schedule
- Time to see a judge
- 72 hours
- Money bail
- Allowed
- Risk assessment
- None statewide
- Prosecutor
- County and prosecuting attorney, organized differently by place, elected
- Public defense
- Statewide public defender
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
A judicial officer, most often a circuit judge or circuit court magistrate, sets release at the initial appearance. For misdemeanors listed on the Supreme Court's bond schedule, a person may pay the scheduled amount without seeing a judge, and a person arrested for one must see a judicial officer within 12 hours or be cited and released.
W.R.Cr.P. 1, 3.1, 5, 46.1 and Uniform Bail and Forfeiture Schedule (2026 compilation)- Time to see a judge
An arrested person must be taken before a judicial officer without unnecessary delay, and a person arrested without a warrant must be released unless a judicial officer finds probable cause within 72 hours. A jailed person who asks in writing for release must get a decision within 72 hours.
W.R.Cr.P. 5(a), 46.1(a)(1)- Money bail
Money bail is allowed. Everyone is bailable by sufficient sureties except in capital cases where the proof is evident or the presumption great.
W.R.Cr.P. 46.1(a)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 92%
- of Wyoming's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 88%
- 61 of 69 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
8 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Basin Police DepartmentCity
- Carbon County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Greybull Police DepartmentCity
- Guernsey Police DepartmentCity
- Kemmerer Police DepartmentCity
- La Barge Police DepartmentCity
- Lovell Police DepartmentCity
- Wheatland Police DepartmentCity
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services, Uniform Crime Reporting unit
- Incident reporting
- WYIBRS
- Annual report
- Crime in WyomingLatest edition: 2025. Editions online 2015 to 2025.
- Online portal
- Wyoming Crime StatisticsData 2021 to 2026.
- What changed
- Wyoming became a certified NIBRS state in December 2018. Reports now sit in a public Google Drive folder (Annual Crime Reports: 2015-2025), not on the DCI site.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Wyoming sources
Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation · Incidents, Arrests · pdf · annual
State UCR/NIBRS program; annual Crime in Wyoming reports.
Wyoming Judicial Branch · Courts · pdf · annual
County / court location: new filings only. District FY09-FY26, circuit FY11-FY26.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.